Tarnished Angels (1957)
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100% of critics liked it
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65% of users liked it
(330 ratings)
William Faulkner's novel Pylon was optioned by Universal producer Albert Zugsmith, who used it as the source for his 1957 production The Tarnished Angels. Robert Stack is a disillusioned World War One ace eking out a living as a barnstorming pilot/parachutist during the early 1930s. New Orleans… More William Faulkner's novel Pylon was optioned by Universal producer Albert Zugsmith, who used it as the source for his 1957 production The Tarnished Angels. Robert Stack is a disillusioned World War One ace eking out a living as a barnstorming pilot/parachutist during the early 1930s. New Orleans newspaperman Rock Hudson runs across Stack at a two-bit carnival. He becomes fascinated with Stack's fall from grace, and latches onto him. As he is drawn into Stack's iconoclastic, individualistic lifestyle, Hudson finds he is also drawn to the pilot's long-suffering wife, Dorothy Malone. Jack Carson is on hand as Stack's chief mechanic, whose anger over the pilot's abusive treatment of Malone explodes into tragedy. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Douglas Sirk
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 11, 1958 Wide
- On DVD
- May 14, 1996
Critic Reviews
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Richard Brody, New Yorker
An enduring philosophical strain of proto-feminist endurance in a land that's both made and menaced by its intrepid warriors.
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Donald J. Levit, ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Given limited budget and technology, the airplane races are well staged over a short oval course around the striped pylons.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Set in the Depression era, this tale of daredevils doing air showsand their nomad lifestyle is one of cult director Douglas Sirk's very best films, and also the finest screen adaptation of a William Faulkner novel.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A seething melodrama about a family of daredevil pilots.
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Cast
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Rock Hudson
as Burke Devlin
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Robert Stack
as Roger Shumann
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Dorothy Malone
as LaVerne Shumann
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Jack Carson
as Jiggs
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Robert Middleton
as Matt Ord
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Alan Reed Sr.
as Col. Fineman
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Troy Donahue
as Frank Burnham
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Alexander Lockwood
as Sam Hagood
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Robert J. Wilke
as Hank
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William Schallert
as Ted Baker
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Betty Utey
as Dancing girl
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Phil Harvey
as Telegraph editor
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Steve Drexel
as Young Man
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Eugene Borden
as Claude Mollet
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Stephen Ellis
as Mechanic
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Chris Olson
as Jack Shumann
